The housing allocation for the District needs to be significantly reduced, with less reliance on bringing forward greenfield sites.

We feel that the proposed volume of housing delivery is too high for the capacity of the district to deliver it sustainably, without causing significant harm to protected sites, landscapes and communities. The proposed development is squeezed into a small geographic area along the east-west corridor especially, sandwiched between the Chichester Harbour AONB and South Downs National Park, harming both through the loss of interconnectivity both in terms of biodiversity and landscape views. This concentrated development places an undue burden on the available infrastructure (particularly water treatment and road transport) and is an unsustainable use of highly productive farmland on the south coast plain. We believe this approach is incompatible with wider government ambitions around environmental and climate change management.